Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 06:22 PM ET BOSTON — New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Friday that Aaron Judge received another platelet-rich plasma injection on his sprained right toe but continues to make progress on an injury that has him sidelined for the second time this season. “They hit the other ligament that
John Keim, ESPN Staff WriterJun 16, 2023, 06:00 AM ET Close John Keim covers the Washington Commanders for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2013 after a stint with the Washington Post. He started covering the team in 1994 for the Journal Newspapers and later for the Washington Examiner. He has authored/co-authored four books. You can
Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 07:04 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Vegas Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy played and coached in three established professional sports cities before arriving in Las Vegas. After the Golden Knights hoisted the Stanley Cup in the team’s sixth NHL season – and Cassidy’s first as their coach – Sin City
Jun 16, 2023, 05:57 PM ET United States captain and veteran defender Becky Sauerbrunn will not be included in the squad for the Women’s World Cup due to a foot injury she suffered in April, multiple reports said Friday. The news was first reported by The Athletic. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.)
Mike Coppinger, ESPNJun 16, 2023, 04:54 PM ET Subriel Matias will defend his IBF junior welterweight title against Sergey Lipinets on Aug. 26, sources told ESPN on Friday. The site of the PBC on Showtime fight, which shapes up as a slugfest, was not disclosed. Matias (19-1, 19 KOs) is one of boxing’s top action
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterJun 15, 2023, 07:31 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun The UFC has booked a bantamweight main event between Cory Sandhagen and Umar Nurmagomedov to headline a UFC Fight Night on Aug. 5 in Nashville, the promotion announced on Thursday.
Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 03:34 PM ET NOTTINGHAM, England — Three British players reached the semifinals of the grass-court Nottingham Open on Friday in a boost to the nation that will host Wimbledon in a couple of weeks. Katie Boulter, Jodie Burrage and Heather Watson – all placed outside the top 100 in the
Jun 16, 2023, 11:37 AM ET Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant was suspended for 25 games of the 2023-24 season without pay for conduct detrimental to the league after the NBA’s investigation into a second video of Morant, 23, holding a gun that circulated on social media May 13. The video appeared during an Instagram
Jun 16, 2023, 02:27 PM ET After waiting nearly two months while the NBA conducted its investigation, the league announced a 25-game suspension Friday for Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant to start the 2023-24 season. In March, Morant, 23, was suspended for eight games after an Instagram Live video showed him displaying a firearm in
Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderJun 16, 2023, 08:51 AM ET Close Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Golden State Warriors executive Mike Dunleavy Jr. has agreed to a deal to become the franchise’s new general manager, sources told ESPN on Friday. Dunleavy is elevating from vice president of basketball operations and will
Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA InsiderJun 16, 2023, 09:57 AM ET Close Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Michael Jordan is finalizing a sale of the Charlotte Hornets to a group led by Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall, ending his 13-year run as majority owner, league sources told ESPN on Friday. An agreement
ESPN News Services Jun 15, 2023, 11:40 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Shohei Ohtani pitched six innings for his first victory in five starts and matched the MLB lead with his 22nd homer as the Los Angeles Angels beat the American League West-leading Texas Rangers 5-3 on Thursday night. Ohtani (6-2) had already thrown the
Tim MacMahon, ESPN Staff WriterJun 16, 2023, 10:59 AM ET Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM The NBA has suspended Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant for 25 games to start the 2023-2024 season due to conduct detrimental to the league, it
Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 11:20 AM ET STUTTGART, Germany — There won’t be an all-American semifinal at the Stuttgart Open after Taylor Fritz was upset 6-4, 7-5 by qualifier Marton Fucsovics in the quarterfinals Friday, but Frances Tiafoe won his match to reach the last four. Fritz, the top-ranked American men’s player at No.
Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentJun 16, 2023, 05:00 AM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. LAS VEGAS — Thursday’s Concacaf Nations League (CNL) semifinal against Mexico was the U.S. men’s national team’s version of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” in that there were enough deviations from perceived
David Newton, ESPN Staff WriterJun 16, 2023, 06:00 AM ET Close David Newton is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Carolina Panthers. Newton began covering Carolina in 1995 and came to ESPN in 2006 as a NASCAR reporter before joining NFL Nation in 2013. You can follow Newton on Twitter at @DNewtonespn. CHARLOTTE,
Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 08:27 AM ET LONDON — Romanian tennis player Petru-Alexandru Luncanu has been banned for five years and fined $40,000 in a match-fixing case, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Friday. Five out of seven match-fixing charges brought by the ITIA against Luncanu were upheld at an anti-corruption hearing, the agency
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterJun 16, 2023, 08:48 AM ET Patricio “Pitbull” Freire had just regained his Bellator featherweight title a few minutes earlier when he approached Scott Coker in the bowels of SAP Center in San Jose, California. “Pitbull,” Bellator’s franchise star, had a proposal for Coker, the promotion’s president, that night in April